Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wished our athletes well earlier on this week, so I am going to speak about our favourite topic. Mr. Speaker, we have been waiting for some trepidation for the cruise missile to be tested, as it sort of whizzed by us on its way south. But as luck would have it again, the tests have been postponed due to not so complimentary weather. Mr. Speaker, one has to wonder what the cruise missile has been tested for, given these conditions. I know that if I were an aggressor bent on harming Canadians, I would be extremely interested in the events of the past week. I would be working busily to develop a bad-weather missile. Maybe a suggestion could be made to request the military to leave a few of these things in Yellowknife, one with Aero Arctic and the other one with Air Tindi. They seem to do just fine in getting around in any conditions in the north. Better still, Mr. Speaker, it was suggested to me this morning that one of them be given to Jim McAvoy and strap it to his single otter. He doesn't seem to have much problem getting around either. Just spread the word and it would strike terror into anyone, knowing that anything that needs to be delivered will be delivered by him.

The goods news, which I heard on the radio this morning, is while the cruise testing is batting zero to zero, the testing of the subzero mechanized over-snow transporters in the north have been quite successful. For those of you who don't know what a subzero mechanized over-snow transporter is, it is a code name, the snowmobile.

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Mr. Speaker, I believe that the cold weather testing of snow machines is far more welcome by northerners who use them everyday for their livelihood than the cruise missile. I believe the people who are testing them will be made welcome in our small communities if they are fortunate enough to visit them during these tests. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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